Troubleshooting • 4B Board Repair
I've made a mistake and I think I've broken my Rpi 4B. I was scraping off a glued on heat sink from the Broadcom chip and broke a little smd component next to it. A tiny, shiny, six pin something or...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: power light blinking red
If you boot with just power and hdmi connected (no sdcard, or other peripherals) do you still see the error pattern, or do you see a diagnostic display?Statistics: Posted by dom — Fri Mar 21, 2025...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 4 4GB usb not working
Some time ago, pre-release (beta) versions of the bootloader were released via the APT package in a 'beta' folder. The problem with this approach is that it caused too much churn in APT packages and...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • HDMI Display is messed up
Hey,I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4. I have checked it with 2 different displays the screen is fine. But with this particular Kotak 32SE5001BL HD Ready TV, the display is messed up. I connected my laptop...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Raspberry pi losing touch orientation
Hello everyone,I have a small hyperpixel screen attached to my pi 5, I use the screen configuration tool to rotate the screen 90 degrees and also rotate the touch with it. The issue is that usually...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: HDMI Display is messed up
See: 1366 x 768 thread.Adding "video=HDMI-A-1:1280x720@60D" to cmdline.txt (on existing line) may be one workaround.Statistics: Posted by dom — Fri Mar 21, 2025 2:37 pm
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: What do you use your R-Pi 5 for?
Desktop replacement, using the excellent and pretty MX Linux version: https://mxlinux.org/download-links/Also playing around with Large Language Models up to 3B parameters, using Ollama...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Disable or recovery secure boot
I'm not sure you can. Being able to (trivially) disable secure boot defeats the entire point of it.Then there's a trust issue. Taken at face value you seem genuine enough but anyone with ill intent...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: HDMI Audio…
YES! You are correct - switched over and I now have audio - thanks very much!Any idea what causes the poorer quality video (noticeable when compared with another unmodified RPi 4B on a different HDMI...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Green light flashes off, had 12V plugged into it
I saw somewhere online a mention of using a USB to GPIO doohickey to be able to drill down into the cause. Is that applicable here? How does that work?Statistics: Posted by mhnine13 — Fri Mar 21, 2025...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 booting problem
I think you have set the bootloader to ignore SDCards. It is attempting to boot from USB (and possibly the "not found" PCIe).Follow the instructions here to load a recovery image (you may have to load...
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Troubleshooting • PI 4B suddendly not booting, SD slot and power input very...
Suddendly today pi4b stopped booting, connecting to wifi or ethernet, and outputting HDMI output.The red light was always on and stable, while red light was blinking fast and regular.Then I figured...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi not connecting to the internet
internet connection Sharing (ICS) may not be handing out an IP?post output of ifconfigStatistics: Posted by terribleted — Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:00 pm
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: PI 4B suddendly not booting, SD slot and power input...
1) what is your power supply?2) if you remove the SD card, and power up, do you get the diagnostic display?Statistics: Posted by terribleted — Sat Mar 22, 2025 3:20 pm
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Troubleshooting • Re: Unable to connect my pixel 7a phone to Raspberry Pi 5...
You seem to be the Bluetooth Guru. Thank you very much for responding. Your post was the first thing that I tried, /with that approach my My mobile phone is not even connecting via the blue tooth. At...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Wayland snags a desktop icon and won't let go
justCode: pkill pcmanfmit'll restart itselfA non-root user can't do that.Statistics: Posted by knute — Sat Mar 22, 2025 4:39 pm
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: replacement deskpi lite HDMI not working
I don't feel like going through more headaches, so it's been returned and I'm going to get an Argon Neo 5 NVMe case.I'm also getting a ugreen NVMe enclosure, so I can plug it into my laptop to use...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Pi5 screen blanker?
I have a Pi5, up to date 64bit bookworm, Wayland and labwc. Setting Screen Blanking on in Raspberry Pi Configuration does not blank the screen. Is there another way to get the screen to...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Raspberry Pi 5 failed to connect to Bluetooth audio
I am trying to connect my pi5 to a bluetooth speaker. It partially connects to the speaker but not as a valid audio device. Could someone tell me what is missing or needed?The steps that I followed:1....
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: HM-10 does not talk to raspi 5
You could try connection with my Bluetooth code btferret that avoids the use of bluetoothctl and will show detailed information about the HM10 characteristics.https://github.com/petzval/btferretCode:...
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